Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:12:21 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: sean mccandless Subject: Cecil Brd Cl. O.C. Trip Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi all, The Cecil Bird Club to Ocean City was yesterday 1/13/01 The locations visited, Ocean pines, Ocean City pond, Ocean City Inlet, Indian river Inlet, Rehobeth, at Silver lake. We had 87 species. Birds of Interest are: Both Loons in good numbers Great Cormorant,6 at Indian river inlet Blk crowned night heron,4 at Ocean City pond Brant Both scaup in good numbers HARLEQUIN DUCKS 7,Ocean City inlet and back bay area TUFTED DUCK, at silverlake in Rehobeth,DE. GREAT BIRD!!!!!( That tuft is getting longer! Merlin,1 atop a ride at the inlet at Ocean City Rough legged hawk,1 Dive bombing a Great Horned Owl,Harriers followed. BLACK HEADED GULL 1, at the north side back marina at Indian river inlet SALT MARSH SPARROW,4, Clapper Rail,3 These two species were at the south bay side of Indian river. Brown Thrasher,1, On the way to Indian River SNOW BUNTINGS, 100+ at Cape Henlopen DE. Note,Ocean City ponds and Lower DE. ponds we visited had great numbers of duck such as, hooded mergansers, canvasbacks,scaup, red heads,ring neck ducks,gadwall,black ducks.Also American Wigeon,pintail,shoveler,bufflehead,and ruddy ducks could be found in good numbers. I would like to give special thanks to the following people for making this trip so much fun and so special. DR Maurice Barnhill,Jeff and Martha Gordon,Parke John, Rick and Candie Lee, Stan Barry and David. Sean McCandless mccandless@hotmail.com Cecil Bird Club _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================